Juergen Boos: “At the Frankfurt Book Fair, no censorship or rules on AI”

By Raffaella De Santis (la Repubblica)

For Juergen Boos, who has been running the Frankfurt Book Fair for twenty-one years, which opens today, this will not be an edition like any other. This will be his last year at the helm of the largest and most important publishing fair in the world.

However, he is not a shaken man. Quite the contrary: Boos seems more relaxed than usual. Perhaps this turning point also gives him greater freedom of speech. A few hours before the opening of the 78th edition, he is in Italy, where he participates in an event dedicated to sustainability in publishing, organized by the Feltrinelli group at the Maxxi museum in Rome.

Very cold, he nevertheless agreed to return, with La Repubblica, to these twenty years during which the Fair was transformed, also becoming a place for debate on artificial intelligence. Boos was 44 years old when he took the reins in 2005. The Fair has since represented an important part of his life...